Explores the critical importance of URLs for collaboration, institutional knowledge, and transparency, especially in tech and government contexts.
Analyzes Stack Overflow's performance-first engineering culture, including trade-offs like skipping unit tests for speed and building custom servers over cloud hosting.
A guide on using the robots.txt file to control search engine access to specific parts or the entirety of a website.
The author announces splitting their blog into two: one for English technical content and another for German business/investment topics.
A guide to making embedded SVG images responsive across browsers using CSS techniques like the Padding Hack and inline media queries.
Explains the SVG transform attribute, covering translation, scaling, rotation, and skewing functions and their interaction with SVG coordinate systems.
A proposal for a new HTTP verb, VALIDATE, to enable safe, idempotent server-side validation from client-side forms without side effects.
Gmail's plain text mode adds hard line breaks, causing formatting issues. The article explains the problem and a standards-compliant solution.
Explains how to use SVG's <g>, <use>, <defs>, and <symbol> elements for grouping and reusing graphical components to create cleaner, more maintainable code.
A comprehensive guide to the CSS will-change property, covering usage, performance, and best practices for web developers.
A developer introduces an improved CSS-based 'Adaptive Placeholder' form field pattern, aiming to enhance UX without unnecessary JavaScript.
A technical comparison of static map solutions from Google, OpenStreetMap, Nokia HERE, and Yandex for web performance optimization.
A tutorial on using AngularJS recursive templates with ng-include to display hierarchical data like category trees of any depth.
A practical guide on the essential and non-essential elements for building a successful web application, emphasizing simplicity and core problem-solving.
Explains the April 7 web security vulnerability, its impact on major sites, and provides steps for users to protect their accounts.
A technical case study on building responsive, accessible websites for Radio Free Europe to reach users with slow connections and old devices.
A humorous first-person account of a developer's obsession with CSS classes, selector performance, and the pitfalls of over-engineering styles.
Part 2 of a series on HTML structure, focusing on semantic markup for navigation and other page elements.
A guide on structuring HTML for websites, focusing on big-picture layout with wrappers, blocks, and semantic elements like header, main, and footer.
Reflections on the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web and predictions for its future, emphasizing the importance of open standards.
